Reflective Thinking

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Reflective Thinking
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/kaams/resource/reflection.htm

A Focus on Reflective Thinking
http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/focus/reflectivethink/default.htm



  • In reflection I discover who I am. In this activity I become truly human. L Walkup

  • The contemplative process, the process of knowing more and more until all is known, is endless. All can never be grasped by a finite being, because all includes the infinite, which the finite mind cannot comprehend. Yet of all human activity, contemplation represents by itself "the higher and more enduring part in the soul's life. . . . Even on earth, the contemplative moments are the highest and the most condensed."200 quoted from Dietrich von Hildebrand,
  • Through contemplation, the knower assimilates to himself in the order of intentionality all nature, and indeed God himself. In this activity, one arrives at the highest and most intimate mode of possessing all reality, but also in a most intimate and personal way one becomes all reality.204....Thomas says that "it is possible that in a single being the whole comprehensiveness of the universe may dwell."206 http://www.crvp.org/book/Series01/I-12/appendix.htm

Creative thinkers
  • Visualize
  • Gather data through all the senses
  • Have a positive attitude
  • Are curious
  • Ask questions
  • Admit when they don't know information.
  • Are willing to entertain opposing points of view and find a common ground of agreement with something
  • Will not prejudge
  • Apply past knowledge to new situations
  • Stay open to continuous learning
  • Will base thinking on demonstratable logical grounds
    • Avoid Fallacies
      • Jumping to conclusions
      • Quitting after one answer (as there may be multiple possibilities)
      • Avoid negative generalities -
      • Avoid decisions based on emotion rather than logic
      • Avoid overlooking opinions because you dislike a person
      • Avoid accepting others' opinions without understanding their reasoning.

How to think
Be willing to look at the problem from multiple perspectives
Define the problem
State the wished-for outcome
Gather information & facts
Let the information simmer and talk to you
Develop a plan of action and follow through

1. Where we are
2. Where we want to go
3. How we will accomplish our journey.

  • Questions Maxwell asks his kids :
    • What did you like best?
    • What did you learn? John Maxwell page 177
  • End of the day questions Maxwell recommends for us::
  • What did I learn today?
  • What should I share?
  • What must I do? John Maxwell page 175
  • Ben Franklin's two questions:
    • What good am I going to do today?
    • What good have I done today? Taken from Maxwell's Thinking for a Change

  • End of the day questions Maxwell recommends for us::
  • What did I learn today?
  • What should I share?
  • What must I do? John Maxwell page 175

  • Ben Franklin's two questions:
    • What good am I going to do today?
    • What good have I done today? Taken from Maxwell's Thinking for a Change